Born in 1988 in Bila Tserkva (Ukraine). She started her creative practice in Kyiv in 2019, where she currently lives and works.
Member of Ukrainian Women Photographers Organization. Curator of NFT projects with a specialization in Ukrainian female photography. Fresh Eyes Talent 2022 (GUP Magazine).
Education. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Journalism, publishing
Author courses of D. Bogachuk
Victor Marushchenko’s School of Photography
MYPH, School of Sergey Melnichenko
Mentorship of Anna Melnikova
Artist statement
My artistic practice is built on the peculiarities of my physiological and mental states.
The congenital anomaly of vision and its almost complete absence in my left eye affects the
aesthetics of my vision and the formats of photographs I work with. My vision is monocular, so
images are mostly vertical or square. My main tool is color. Without lenses and glasses I see only
it, no clear shapes or lines, no other signs of reality. Every day I put into practice the wave theory
of light, notice different manifestations of diffraction, interference and dispersion of light and many
other "visions" that I have not yet identified.
The topics I work with are related to the work of my psyche. Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders are reflected in the themes of my series and approaches to working with images. Chaotic and abstract elements, the combination of several images
During the past few decades, the word "housewife" has absorbed all the negative nuances and side effects of stereotypical thinking about women.
HOUSEWIFE series - about the complicated process of a woman's acceptance of herself - through an unshakable wall of stereotypes and prejudices in modern Ukrainian society.
It is about the courage to be yourself in a society where marketing laws has displaced the voices of our own thoughts and hearts.
Disturbing Beauty (2022)
Dedicated to the turbulent times in my country and in my Universe.
"Disturbing Beauty" came into my head as a concept a week before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The series arose, but the feeling of conscious fear did not, I denied everything that was happening around me, not accepting the possibility of war. All my unrealized anxiety accumulated in those pictures.
The challenges of current reality present to our eyes a new conception of melancholic beauty. Notes of overwhelming fear for the future, which may not be, appear on images of Ukrainian women. Premonition of disaster became an emotionally draining game that we can't help but play. Unfortunately, now this is the reality of the absolute majority of Ukrainians - to pretend that anxiety does not exist, while it has swallowed you whole.
HOW ARE YOU? 2022
When the war began, this phrase sounded a billion times a second throughout Ukraine and far beyond its borders.
Now that time has passed, and in some regions the fighting has stopped, these words sound quite different. Or rather, the answer. It became unbearably difficult to answer.
How are we? Who am I?
Before the war, I thought I knew the answer to this question. Self-digging seemed to be a sign of intelligence, psychoanalysis every second of my existence seemed to be a reasonable approach to existence. But the war finally brought me to the psychiatrist's office. And I was familiar with the diagnosis of "obsessive-compulsive disorder". I couldn't take more pictures, my thoughts were swallowed up, and the signs of reality were irrevocably mixed with obsessive anxiety. This inner chaos and the feeling of loss of identity mixed with the fear of losing HOME (equally my country) I poured into an uncontrolled collage of the new reality I saw in the suburbs of Kyiv.
Where should I move to cope? Where can I be calm? There is no such place anymore.
* Picture I used in my collages were made with 3-d smartphone scanner (Polycam). In this way I wanted to make reality as complicated and volumetric as Ukrainian reality.
The mystery of pain (2022 - )
Dramatic rethinking of the image of a young Ukrainian woman - considering the realities of war. Its mystical component comes from Ukrainian folklore. Its modern features are woven from the pain and despair of the past year, which has forever settled as a stone of unspeakable memories on her chest.
She no longer remembers what she used to be. And she still does not know what she has become.
Pain changes everything and forever.
